86 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
Assistant Professor; Jas. B. Pollock, M.S., Assistant; Fannie E 
Langdon, B.S., Assistant. 
Subjects offered — Morphology. Physiology. 
Library — General library contains 100,000 volumes, 18,000 
pamphlets. The special botanical books are shelved in the 
laboratory. They comprise sets of journals and other period- 
ical literature and monographs. 
Greenhouses and garden.— Space is provided in a neighboring 
conservatory and garden where plants under investigation are 
cared for by an attendant. 
Collections —The laboratory contains a large collection of 
alcoholic material and an herbarium of about 100,000 sheets 
representing about 14,000 species. The collection of fungi 
includes Ellis and Everhart, Briosi and Cavara and other valua- 
ble sets, and a large representation of species occurring in Mich- 
igan. Arrangements are also made by which abundant marine 
and tropical material is provided when needed. 
Remarks.— The income of the laboratory makes it possible to 
promise an investigator anything that he really needs in the way 
of material and apparatus. 
A journal club of a dozen or fifteen instructors, investigators, 
and advanced students meets weekly for reports on current lit-— 
erature. 
University OF MINNESOTA. 
Staff —Conway MacMillan, A.M., Professor; D. T. Mac- 
Dougal, A.M., M.S., Assistant Professor; F. Ramaley, M.S., 
Instructor; A. A. mein, Instructor; Josephine E. Tilden, B. Se 
Instructor. 
Subjects eek: Lay tae morphology, anatomy and 
embryology ; ecology ; cytology ; algology and mycology ; eco- — 
logic distribution. 
Taxonomy of Spermatophyta and Feecibonyta. 
Physiology, with special reference to irritability, the direct- 
ive and formative influence of environmental factors. 
See research. Students, with ea —— are 
